Quick Tip #1 – Keeping perspective while using Symbol Builder

Hello!!

I hope that your week is off to a great start! This week I want to start a new "Quick Tip" series where I'll plan to share, well, quick tips on various topics. Without further delay, we'll kick this series off with the first quick tip, "Keeping perspective while using Symbol Builder".

Some time ago, AutoCAD® Electrical introduced a new Symbol Builder feature which leveraged the existing Block Editor environment in AutoCAD. This actually has made many users uncomfortable because they are taken into a "sterile" environment, away from any existing drawing elements or things they may need to help them position or size the new block that is being created. As you can see in the image below, I'm starting to draw my new symbol, but I really cannot tell how the size compares to the other items in my drawing/library:

At first glance, this environment may look to be difficult, if not impossible to work within. How can you tell what size to make things? How can you figure out exactly where to position the various elements of your new block so that they will look and align correctly when used?

By using the "XREF" command from AutoCAD, I can attach a drawing for reference to help me build the new block that I need. As you can see in the image above, I now know that the circle I was starting to draw was entirely too large and can correct this prior to finishing the block creation process.

I hope you find this information useful!!

-Jared Bunch

Comments

[THL]

Or, you can just draw the graphics you need in the sheet you're in, to get the size correct, and select these entities in the first dialog of the symbol builder.

[Jared Bunch]

Hi THL
Thank you for the comment! That is a great point and another excellent example of how users can achieve this goal.
-Jared Bunch

[khaled salah]

Sorry to say to you that you need a proper training for ACADE because this tool is very goo and it is testing your block mistakes . if you want help to build a symbol very fast and accurate please send me mail. to solve this problem you have to check your drawing units .

[Bruce]

I do what THL posted, and have my grid turned on for reference too.

[Phil Buccieri]

Thanks Jared, that really does help. But why is it that after I save the block by closing the block editor and being sure the insertion point is 0, 0, 0, and after the "Do you want to insert the block now?" prompt, the new block is way out of the drawing frame and I have to cross window the entire model area to see the new block found as a flyspeck image way to the northeast of the model view?

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